CVE-2006-5990 (GCVE-0-2006-5990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-21 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:12
VLAI
Summary
VMWare VirtualCenter client 2.x before 2.0.1 Patch 1 (Build 33643) and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 Patch 1 (Build 33425), when server certificate verification is enabled, does not verify the server's X.509 certificate when creating an SSL session, which allows remote malicious servers to spoof valid servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1017270 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452275/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vc-201-200611-p… x_refsource_MISC
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/4646606 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/23053 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21231 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2006-11-16 00:00
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